The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More
The Deep Spaces exhibit, curated by Larkin Jean Van Horn, will show textile works of a common size interpreting the title theme at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum beginning on January 10, 2012 and running until March 11, 2012. Fifty pieces will be showcased. Please plan to visit the Walker Education Center’s Exhibit Gallery on the Museum grounds to view Deep Spaces. The public is also invited to an exhibit reception on January 19, 2012 from 5:30-7:30pm. – www.samhouston.org ... Read More
The Craft and Folk Art Museum presents Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1985 an exhibition on view through anuary 8, 2012. Presented by Craft in America and the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) as part of the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, Golden State of Craft: California 1960 – 1985 surveys an extraordinary, innovative artistic period that blossomed in post-World War II California. Promoted in large part by two central figures—Edith Wyle, founder of the Los ... Read More
Relive life in Lexington during World War II. Learn how everyday Americans helped with the war effort, with rationing, victory gardens, war industries, and more. Learn about what it was like for our Boys in service. What it was like to live through the intensity of battle and what they did to relieve long stretches of boredom. Also on display will be the spoils of war that our soldiers, sailors, and airmen brought back home. The exhibit will also feature a Wall of Honor listing the names of those Kentuckians ... Read More
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has kicked off 5th birthday celebrations for the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) by announcing the winner of a $1 million sculpture commission and unveiling a model of the new art work. Michael Parekowhai The World Turns (artist’s impression) The Premier also marked the occasion by opening the children’s exhibition ‘we miss you magic land,’ by Perth artists Pip and Pop. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since GoMA opened its doors here in Brisbane,” Ms ... Read More
Arts Minister Rachel Nolan has opened Matisse: Drawing Life, an exclusive exhibition of Henri Matisse’s drawings and prints, showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) until 4 March 2012. “The highlight of GoMA’s fifth anniversary celebrations, the exhibition brings together more than 300 works from international museums, the National Gallery of Australia, and private collections, including works never previously shown or reproduced,” Ms Nolan said. “This comprehensive survey explores the ... Read More
The Museum of Florida History presents Beaches, Creatures, and Cowboys. Florida Movie Posters an exhibition on view through anuary 16, 2012. The exhibit highlights movies made in Florida. Objects in the exhibit are drawn from the Museum’s collection of original and reproduction movie posters and other advertising materials. These posters were created to promote films made in Florida dating to the early 20th century when Florida rivaled California in the industry. Colorful, eye-catching posters promoted ... Read More
The Craft and Folk Art Museum presents The Alchemy of June Schwarcz: Enamel Vessels from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection on view through January 8, 2012. The Alchemy of June Schwarcz: Enamel Vessels from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection provides an in-depth examination of one of the artists included in Golden State of Craft. Like taking a magnifying glass to a single cell and uncovering a hidden universe, this exhibition will highlight the extensive career of one of California’s living treasures. June ... Read More
The Stanley Spencer Gallery presents Spencer’s War. The Art of Shipbuilding on the Clyde an exhibition on view through 15 January 2012. Stanley Spencer Painting of Plumbers © Imperial War Museum The majority of works in the exhibition are on loan from the Imperial War Museum, London. The exceptions are the two works lent by Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (nos. 18-19), and four drawings in the Stanley Spencer Gallery, either in the collection or on long-term loan (nos. 4, 7, 12 and 27). The exhibition ... Read More
The Tyler Museum of Art presents Black and Gold an exhibition on view through February 12, 2012. Tyler Junior College curated and organized this exhibition celebrating its 85th year of serving the Tyler community and surrounding areas through its academic, cultural, and athletic programs. The exhibit gives a glimpse of TJC from 1926 to the present, with each decade represented by a host of photographs, objects, and emotions. See how national, state, and local community histories affected TJC’s creation and ... Read More
The Tyler Museum of Art presents Reflections on Water on view December 9–March 4, 2012. Edward Percy Moran (American, 1862-1935). Children Playing on the Beach, ca. 1890. Oil on canvas, 15 x 22 inches. The Arthur J. Phelan Collection Reflections on Water in American Painting–The Arthur J. Phelan Collection combines 50 paintings that together tell a unique history of the country’s maritime growth from the grand sailing ships of the U.S. Navy and the river boats of Mark Twain’s Mississippi River to the ... Read More
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